As a big fan of Sean Baker’s this one doesn’t disappoint. He continues to meditate around the edges of society, this time focusing on washed up porn star Mikey. Mikey is a cocktail of all things good and bad about America: on the one hand he is emblematic of the bright eyed entrepreneurship that drives much of US society; on the other hand, he’s a raging narcissist and hypocrite whose self serving nature causes him to exploit those around him…
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Shoplifters 2018
My favorite movie that I saw at Cannes this year, and just below Still Walking in Koreeda's filmography. I am crotchety and not often interested by films that could be described as "lovable", but I find Shoplifters nearly impossible to dislike: often funny, at times suspenseful, unexpectedly (if you don't know Koreeda) heart-wrenching. A more successful cocktail of his previous works than Jia Zhangke's new film is (although I like that one a lot too), Koreeda digs deep into the…
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Under the Silver Lake 2018
Why does every woman in LA want to fuck Andrew Garfield even when he is meant to smell of skunk? Why does he have sex with his shirt on? Isn't it hot there?
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